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premiere to after effects to output
Hello,
I know this has been asked a thousand times and I’ve been researching it all but as I have a deadline in the morning and my head is going round in circles I thought I’d ask again.
I’ve edited a film if Premiere and it’s now complete. I need to do two last things though.
1 – I need to grade the project. Is it best to do in After Effects or does it not matter.
2 – I would like to change the ratio of the project. It’s currently 16:9 and I would like to change it to 2.35/1 as I have some vignetting in the corners.
Can I do that in Premiere or can it only be done retrospectively in After Effects. If the latter can I move each clip individually up and down within the new crop or is it just the whole project as a whole.
Finally do I then output the finished project to whatever format I want saving it as from After Effects or Premiere.
Thanks so much.
Mark
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2 Replies
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Hi Mark,
Let’s see if I can be of any help.
1. Regarding the color grading. My personal preference is to use Davinci Resolve Lite, which is a free download available from Blackmagic. If you haven’t heard of it then I would highly recommend checking it out as it is one of the world’s top color grading platforms. However it does have a bit of a learning curve. So if you want to stay within Adobe’s offerings, the first question that needs to be asked is which version of Adobe do you have? Is it CS6 or earlier, or do you have Creative Cloud? If you have Creative Cloud the best option would be to use Adobe Speedgrade, or if you don’t have time for that, the built in Lumetri color engine in Premiere CC can do some very nice things as well. Note that Lumetri is only available in Adobe CC, however. If you’re on CS6, then your best bet is probably to send it to After Effects and use the built in Color Finesse plug-in, or a 3rd party plugin like Colorista II.
2. I’ve never done a 16:9 to 2.35:1 conversion, but I’ve done 16:9 to 4:3. It should be possible using either Premiere or After Effects. In Premiere you would need to create a new sequence that is setup for 2.35:1. Then I would recommend Nesting your previous edited sequence within this new cropped sequence. Premiere will prompt you to let you know that the sequence settings don’t match the footage and will ask if you want to change the sequence to match. Say “Keep Existing Settings”. Your footage will be brought into the new 2.35:1 sequence, at which point you should be able to shift it up and down as you please within the sequence. Be aware that there may be some anomalies caused by the change in pixel aspect ratio.
Hopefully that helps.
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Thanks so much. That’s very helpful. So I have a couple more questions please.
I have CS6 so how do I nest the project into the new Premiere project with the new ratio?
I think I’ll stick with After Effects for grading. Do I export the project from Premiere or do I import the project into After Effects or does it not matter?
Once I’ve graded do I just save the after effect project or do I export it back into Premiere?
Thanks so much.
Mark
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